Shropshire Star reports a laptop with personal details – including bank account details – of employees at the Ministry of Defense Donnington base was stolen from the car of an employee of Kuehne and Nagel on Tuesday. “We Kuehne and Nagel confirm that the company laptop of an employee went missing, presumed stolen, on June…
Category: Business Sector
Eataly payment card breach spanned 3 months; NYC customers offered credit monitoring services
Eataly, the high-end Italian food market that announced a payment system breach provided additional details in an update: Eataly NY, LLC (“Eataly”) recently became aware of a personal information security incident possibly affecting certain individuals who made a payment card purchase at the Eataly NYC Retail Marketplace, located at 200 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010 (the “NYC…
Bin bods Brabantia breached, customer passwords trashed
Alexander J. Martin reports: Brabantia, the Dutch company most well known for making steel bins, has been hacked within the last 24 hours, and customer details may have been exposed. An email Brabantia has sent to consumers explains that “as part of our routine monitoring, we have been made aware that our database accounts have…
SunPower Alleges SunEdison Poached Employees, Trade Secrets
Peter Blumberg reports: SunPower Corp. sued SunEdison Inc. over claims the rival solar manufacturer recruited away employees who stole trade secrets. SunPower said its competitor acquired proprietary information when it poached 20 workers in the U.S., Spain and Italy from 2011 to 2014, according to a complaint filed Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco….
Maybe Florida should, like, ya know, pass a law actually requiring secure destruction of records with personal info?
C’mon, Florida law firms: get your data protection/records disposal act together, will you? This is the second report of improper data disposal this week. The first was in Orlando.
AU: Catch of the Day: off the hook
Richard Chirgwin reports: Retail coupon operator Catch-of-the-Day has escaped penalty over sitting on a data breach for three years. The 2011 data breach was notified to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) in 2014. Catch of the Day put the delay down to deciding that the hashed passwords in the compromised systems “might” be…